Total subscriptions: 23,000 (July 2016 est.)

Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 6 (July 2016 est.)

Country comparison to the world: 171

Total subscriptions: 227,000 (July 2016 est.)

Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 63 (July 2016 est.)

Country comparison to the world: 181

General assessment: Govt telecome company, BTL, continues to hold a monopoly in fixed-line services and mobile and broadband fixed-line teledensity; small market, underinvestment with lack of competion, yet BTL reports stable telecome revenue for fiscal 2017 (2017)

Domestic: Mobile sector accounting for over 90% of all phone subscriptions; 6 per 100 fixed-line; mobile-cellular teledensity approaching 65 per 100 persons (2017)

International: Country code - 501; landing point for the Americas Region Caribbean Ring System (ARCOS-1) fiber-optic telecommunications submarine cable that provides links to South and Central America, parts of the Caribbean, and the US; satellite earth station - 8 (Intelsat - 2, unknown - 6); mid-2017 completing a submarine cable to Ambergris Caye; SEUL submarine cable connecting the mainland with Ambergris Caye completed (2017)